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Abstract
One feature of the contemporary world situation about which there seems to be wide agreement is that “Africa” is in dire economic and political straits. There is disagreement only about why this is so. But many commentators agree, whatever their theoretical predelictions, that Africa's declining position within world trade is symptomatic of “the continent's problems.” This paper challenges this consensus by using a long time-series of data on Africa's trading patterns and questicning the geographical assumptions about Africa upon which the conventional wisdom is based.
